I remember using "Turbo Basic" to compile a bunch of BASIC door games I'd written back in the day. That was, of course, back when I could only dream of having enough cash to own two computers at the same time, let along the luxury of a second phone line to actually run a BBS with.
I second your feeling of elderlyness. And I think I see someone playing on my lawn.
$700 million is quite small compared to the cost to rebuild San Francisco.
On the up side, if someone levelled San Francisco with an ICBM, it would get rid of all those damned hills. Imagine how much longer brake pads would last in New San Francisco!
The first is that when highways and expressways were planned for urban areas in the Northeast, they were usually routed through ghettos and other areas of depressed property value so that the project could be completed at a low cost.
Thanks, Robert Moses!
I think that fellow probably did more harm to the development of urban centers in America than anyone else.
(I live in Buffalo, which built a highway right through the middle of an Olmsted-designed park in keeping with his car-centric theories.)
On Monday, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the files of a person's laptop may be searched at U.S. borders [PDF] without probable cause or even reasonable suspicion."
Last time I checked was quite a while ago -- I think Woody was current, or perhaps the one before that (Slink?). At the time I was looking to install a *nix on an old 680x0 machine, and I ended up going with NetBSD rather than Linux because I couldn't find anything suitable for the target machine. Thanks for the update, I appreciate it.
Also on the subject of other architectures, is there any commonly available ARM hardware besides the NSLU that I could install Debian on? I'd like to play with it.
Last I checked, Debian GNU/Linux didn't run terribly well on anything but x86 and ppc -- NetBSD was by far a better choice for something like a MIPS box or a VAX. Is that still the case?
But, I might also add two things: slavery was permanent, and much more demeaning, and indentured servitude was often a contract between two willing parties. For example, individuals who could not pay passage to the New World would pay for said passage by agreeing to a period of bondage for so many years, etc.
Right now, I'm in a hotel room far from home and so I can't cite any sources. A pity. But the fact is, indentured servants often had nothing at all to do with their position. There were gangs of muggers in many port cities, especially in England, who would be paid a bounty for kidnapping people and delivering them to ships headed to the New World.
Also, as for permanence and such, the VAST majority of indentured servants were dead long before they would have earned their freedom. And remember, we're talking about young, strong people here, mostly in their late teens and early twenties, being killed in less than seven years. Why is that? Well, why do some people beat the hell out of a rental car? Because it's not theirs. Same principle here. A slave was seen as more of an investment, while an indentured servant was just passing through anyhow. There are primary sources indicating that many slaves were actually thankful that they were slaves and not indentured servants, because that status afforded them a miniscule amount of additional protection.
I just reread my earlier post, and I think I may have come off a bit more as a liberal PC loony than I intended to. It's just one of those things that really bothers me; classifying an entire group of people based on their appearance is okay sometimes (mullet, Camaro, white skin) and not okay other times (baggy pants, gold chains, black skin). I think that silly, uneven treatment like this makes it even more difficult than it already is to have any kind of honest discussion about race in the US.
(For example: why does every junior high school history class talk about the horrors of slavery ad infinitum and never spend more than a sentence or two on "indentured servitude"?)
Anyway, this is straying wildly offtopic. My apologies.
looks like an uncooperative, verbally abusive redneck.
Why do people think that "redneck" (or "hillbilly", or "white trash") is a socially acceptable term? Let's try substituting some other stuff.
"Looks like an uncooperative, verbally abusive nigger."
"Looks like an uncooperative, verbally abuse spic."
"Looks like an uncooperative, verbally abusive gook."
It's about the same class of word. Please, have a little respect, especially for someone you obviously don't know personally. Judging someone by their appearance is bad enough. Using racist language on top of it makes you look like the fool.
It works fine, at least on my Powerbook Pismo -- at one point I was well over 200 days of uptime, because I just sleep the thing when I'm not using it. And I use it a LOT.
I had the same response the first time I wanted to remove a standard package - "What? Uninstall the whole desktop???". After some digging around on the forums, I realized that it's just a poorly named placeholder.
Sort of like "base-config" in Debian. I got scared the first time that I wanted to do something with apt-get and it wanted to remove that. "Initial-configuration" or something might be a better name.
If sony does thosetwo things, they could say (truthfully) that Why buy a console that costs 499 dollars, and then buy a computer that costs 699 dollars and DVD-player that costs 109 sollars, when you could jsut buy a PS3 for 699 dollars and be done with it?
That strategy certainly worked wonderfully for both the Coleco Adam AND the Mattel Aquarius.
Every single post on here where people are talking about how they studied with High Ninja Doodle-Sensei is being read, inside my head, in the voice of Dwight from The Office.
What they don't have is basic literacy, and all the technology in the world can't change that.
Nope. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that the students would be better off with teachers who weren't so distracted by technology. I teach Computer Science at a college level, and the vast majority of the time, all that's necessary is a chalkboard and some books. I can't see why an elementary school reading class would require more than that.
Throwing computers into a classroom with no funding for IT staff, and no money to train the teachers to use them, is far more harm than good.
donate them to poor urban schools, or third world countries?
Urban schools have plenty of technology, thanks to programs like E-rate. What they don't have is people to set it up, whether it's old junk like this or brand new machines. Take a walk around a typical city school some time; it's enlightening.
(I live in Buffalo, not an exceptionally wealthy city by any means.)
Keep in mind that whoever a customer can actually reach on the phone is probably a call center contractor, not an actual Verizon employee. Speaking as someone who was in that position (until Verizon shut down the center I worked in and fired everyone), the amount of communication coming down from on high is close to nil.
(And, for added fun, the non-union call centers are not allowed to call the union employees of Verizon proper. Good luck getting your stuff fixed when the phone monkeys are barred from speaking to the people who can fix it!)
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I remember using "Turbo Basic" to compile a bunch of BASIC door games I'd written back in the day. That was, of course, back when I could only dream of having enough cash to own two computers at the same time, let along the luxury of a second phone line to actually run a BBS with.
I second your feeling of elderlyness. And I think I see someone playing on my lawn.
--saint
No Commodore 64? The best-selling microcomputer ever? The machine that probably launcher more nerds' careers (mine included) than anything else?
Yeah, I think this list is pretty much bullshit.
--saint
$700 million is quite small compared to the cost to rebuild San Francisco.
On the up side, if someone levelled San Francisco with an ICBM, it would get rid of all those damned hills. Imagine how much longer brake pads would last in New San Francisco!
--saint
She's no more than an author
She's not even that. _Atlas Shrugged_ isn't even a decent novel. The fact that people treat it as a philosophical treatise is unbelievable to me.
--saint
The first is that when highways and expressways were planned for urban areas in the Northeast, they were usually routed through ghettos and other areas of depressed property value so that the project could be completed at a low cost.
Thanks, Robert Moses!
I think that fellow probably did more harm to the development of urban centers in America than anyone else.
(I live in Buffalo, which built a highway right through the middle of an Olmsted-designed park in keeping with his car-centric theories.)
--saint
On Monday, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the files of a person's laptop may be searched at U.S. borders [PDF] without probable cause or even reasonable suspicion."
TrueCrypt for Windows or Linux. Check it out.
--saint
Last time I checked was quite a while ago -- I think Woody was current, or perhaps the one before that (Slink?). At the time I was looking to install a *nix on an old 680x0 machine, and I ended up going with NetBSD rather than Linux because I couldn't find anything suitable for the target machine. Thanks for the update, I appreciate it.
Also on the subject of other architectures, is there any commonly available ARM hardware besides the NSLU that I could install Debian on? I'd like to play with it.
--saint
Last I checked, Debian GNU/Linux didn't run terribly well on anything but x86 and ppc -- NetBSD was by far a better choice for something like a MIPS box or a VAX. Is that still the case?
--saint
But, I might also add two things: slavery was permanent, and much more demeaning, and indentured servitude was often a contract between two willing parties. For example, individuals who could not pay passage to the New World would pay for said passage by agreeing to a period of bondage for so many years, etc.
Right now, I'm in a hotel room far from home and so I can't cite any sources. A pity. But the fact is, indentured servants often had nothing at all to do with their position. There were gangs of muggers in many port cities, especially in England, who would be paid a bounty for kidnapping people and delivering them to ships headed to the New World.
Also, as for permanence and such, the VAST majority of indentured servants were dead long before they would have earned their freedom. And remember, we're talking about young, strong people here, mostly in their late teens and early twenties, being killed in less than seven years. Why is that? Well, why do some people beat the hell out of a rental car? Because it's not theirs. Same principle here. A slave was seen as more of an investment, while an indentured servant was just passing through anyhow. There are primary sources indicating that many slaves were actually thankful that they were slaves and not indentured servants, because that status afforded them a miniscule amount of additional protection.
--saint
It's a derogatory term for poor white people.
I just reread my earlier post, and I think I may have come off a bit more as a liberal PC loony than I intended to. It's just one of those things that really bothers me; classifying an entire group of people based on their appearance is okay sometimes (mullet, Camaro, white skin) and not okay other times (baggy pants, gold chains, black skin). I think that silly, uneven treatment like this makes it even more difficult than it already is to have any kind of honest discussion about race in the US.
(For example: why does every junior high school history class talk about the horrors of slavery ad infinitum and never spend more than a sentence or two on "indentured servitude"?)
Anyway, this is straying wildly offtopic. My apologies.
--saint
looks like an uncooperative, verbally abusive redneck.
Why do people think that "redneck" (or "hillbilly", or "white trash") is a socially acceptable term? Let's try substituting some other stuff.
"Looks like an uncooperative, verbally abusive nigger."
"Looks like an uncooperative, verbally abuse spic."
"Looks like an uncooperative, verbally abusive gook."
It's about the same class of word. Please, have a little respect, especially for someone you obviously don't know personally. Judging someone by their appearance is bad enough. Using racist language on top of it makes you look like the fool.
--saint
Which part of "under wanrraty" you don't understand?
Uh, the second word.
--saint
Underlying these concerns is the notion that a vocational education is a second-class education.
I thought that too, until the first time I had to pay a plumber for a house call.
--saint
(I just read here http://www.tgunkel.de/it/hardware/doc/ibook_g4_lin ux.en [tgunkel.de] that sleep works in recent Linux kernels. Can't verify that tho)
It works fine, at least on my Powerbook Pismo -- at one point I was well over 200 days of uptime, because I just sleep the thing when I'm not using it. And I use it a LOT.
--saint
I had the same response the first time I wanted to remove a standard package - "What? Uninstall the whole desktop???". After some digging around on the forums, I realized that it's just a poorly named placeholder.
Sort of like "base-config" in Debian. I got scared the first time that I wanted to do something with apt-get and it wanted to remove that. "Initial-configuration" or something might be a better name.
--saint
If sony does thosetwo things, they could say (truthfully) that Why buy a console that costs 499 dollars, and then buy a computer that costs 699 dollars and DVD-player that costs 109 sollars, when you could jsut buy a PS3 for 699 dollars and be done with it?
That strategy certainly worked wonderfully for both the Coleco Adam AND the Mattel Aquarius.
Videogame crash 2, here we come!
--saint
I remember that fishing game, which came with the computer. You had to pick the trout (fish #4, iirc) to beat almost any other fish.
Odell Lake. It was far better on the Commie than on the Apples at school.
--saint
Not to put in a plug for Wal-Mart, as I loathe feeding the corporate giant as much as the next hippie, but money is tight and I need a rig!
Right. Loathe. Somehow I don't think that we're working with the same definition of that word.
--saint
Every single post on here where people are talking about how they studied with High Ninja Doodle-Sensei is being read, inside my head, in the voice of Dwight from The Office.
I just can't shake it. How awful.
--saint
6 - 9/10 of everything you hear about martial arts is a lie. YMMV
In that case, I'm just going to disregard the other 90% of your post.
--saint
What they don't have is basic literacy, and all the technology in the world can't change that.
Nope. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that the students would be better off with teachers who weren't so distracted by technology. I teach Computer Science at a college level, and the vast majority of the time, all that's necessary is a chalkboard and some books. I can't see why an elementary school reading class would require more than that.
Throwing computers into a classroom with no funding for IT staff, and no money to train the teachers to use them, is far more harm than good.
--saint
donate them to poor urban schools, or third world countries?
Urban schools have plenty of technology, thanks to programs like E-rate. What they don't have is people to set it up, whether it's old junk like this or brand new machines. Take a walk around a typical city school some time; it's enlightening.
(I live in Buffalo, not an exceptionally wealthy city by any means.)
--saint
Make that two companies
Three. Remember Lucent?
--saint
Keep in mind that whoever a customer can actually reach on the phone is probably a call center contractor, not an actual Verizon employee. Speaking as someone who was in that position (until Verizon shut down the center I worked in and fired everyone), the amount of communication coming down from on high is close to nil.
(And, for added fun, the non-union call centers are not allowed to call the union employees of Verizon proper. Good luck getting your stuff fixed when the phone monkeys are barred from speaking to the people who can fix it!)
--saint
Did you notice who else is on that committee? The Honorable Weiner.
Heh.
--saint